JIMMY THOMPSON

Hi, I'm Jimmy, a software engineer based in London. Welcome to my blog. Hi, I'm Jimmy. I'm a Developer currently working for ThoughtWorks in London. I usually blog about things that are racking my brains, or problems I'm tackling at the moment. LINKING TOGETHER LAMBDA AND SNS ACROSS AWS ACCOUNTS Linking together Lambda and SNS across AWS accounts. Hooking together Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda functions and Simple Notification Service (SNS) topics is relatively trivial when working within the same account. However, when dealing with multiple accounts, you encounter a mire of access controls which need to be gently configured in order for things to run smoothly. YOUR ENGINEERS MUST SPEAK TO USERS TOO Your Engineers Must Speak to Users Too. The team, and your users, will thank you. Photo by Farrel Nobel. If you’re building something to solve a problem, chances are someone is

MY JOEL TEST

My Joel Test. A few years ago my friend, Richard, introduced me to the Joel Test.Written in 2000, the Joel Test measures the “quality” of a development team in twelve questions. YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY ARE NOT “EARLY ADOPTERS” Your friends and family are not “early adopters” Find your real early adopters and solve their problems instead. Photo by Caleb Woods. I really hate it when a startup goes with “friends and family” releases rather than finding real customers.

CITIZENFOUR

Citizenfour. A humble review. Edward Snowden - the NSA whistleblower, and the subject of Citizenfour. In June 2013, over fifty-thousand classified documents pertaining to a collection of secret programmes of mass surveillance formulated in the wake of 9-11 by the NSA and GCHQ were leaked to The Guardian. DRIVING YOUR TEAM FORWARD WITH HYPOTHESIS-DRIVEN Driving your team forward with Hypothesis-Driven Development. It was a Monday afternoon, and our team retrospective. Every two weeks we’d sit down and discuss what happened since the previous one, but this time it was different.

JIMMY THOMPSON

Hi, I'm Jimmy, a software engineer based in London. Welcome to my blog. Hi, I'm Jimmy. I'm a Developer currently working for ThoughtWorks in London. I usually blog about things that are racking my brains, or problems I'm tackling at the moment. LINKING TOGETHER LAMBDA AND SNS ACROSS AWS ACCOUNTS Linking together Lambda and SNS across AWS accounts. Hooking together Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda functions and Simple Notification Service (SNS) topics is relatively trivial when working within the same account. However, when dealing with multiple accounts, you encounter a mire of access controls which need to be gently configured in order for things to run smoothly. YOUR ENGINEERS MUST SPEAK TO USERS TOO Your Engineers Must Speak to Users Too. The team, and your users, will thank you. Photo by Farrel Nobel. If you’re building something to solve a problem, chances are someone is

MY JOEL TEST

My Joel Test. A few years ago my friend, Richard, introduced me to the Joel Test.Written in 2000, the Joel Test measures the “quality” of a development team in twelve questions. YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY ARE NOT “EARLY ADOPTERS” Your friends and family are not “early adopters” Find your real early adopters and solve their problems instead. Photo by Caleb Woods. I really hate it when a startup goes with “friends and family” releases rather than finding real customers.

CITIZENFOUR

Citizenfour. A humble review. Edward Snowden - the NSA whistleblower, and the subject of Citizenfour. In June 2013, over fifty-thousand classified documents pertaining to a collection of secret programmes of mass surveillance formulated in the wake of 9-11 by the NSA and GCHQ were leaked to The Guardian. DRIVING YOUR TEAM FORWARD WITH HYPOTHESIS-DRIVEN Driving your team forward with Hypothesis-Driven Development. It was a Monday afternoon, and our team retrospective. Every two weeks we’d sit down and discuss what happened since the previous one, but this time it was different.

JIMMY THOMPSON

Hi, I'm Jimmy, a software engineer based in London. Welcome to my blog. Hi, I'm Jimmy. I'm a Developer currently working for ThoughtWorks in London. I usually blog about things that are racking my brains, or problems I'm tackling at the moment. LINKING TOGETHER LAMBDA AND SNS ACROSS AWS ACCOUNTS Linking together Lambda and SNS across AWS accounts. Hooking together Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda functions and Simple Notification Service (SNS) topics is relatively trivial when working within the same account. However, when dealing with multiple accounts, you encounter a mire of access controls which need to be gently configured in order for things to run smoothly. YOUR ENGINEERS MUST SPEAK TO USERS TOO Your Engineers Must Speak to Users Too. The team, and your users, will thank you. Photo by Farrel Nobel. If you’re building something to solve a problem, chances are someone is YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY ARE NOT “EARLY ADOPTERS” Your friends and family are not “early adopters” Find your real early adopters and solve their problems instead. Photo by Caleb Woods. I really hate it when a startup goes with “friends and family” releases rather than finding real customers. DRIVING YOUR TEAM FORWARD WITH HYPOTHESIS-DRIVEN Driving your team forward with Hypothesis-Driven Development. It was a Monday afternoon, and our team retrospective. Every two weeks we’d sit down and discuss what happened since the previous one, but this time it was different.

JIMMY THOMPSON

Hi, I'm Jimmy, a software engineer based in London. Welcome to my blog. Hi, I'm Jimmy. I'm a Developer currently working for ThoughtWorks in London. I usually blog about things that are racking my brains, or problems I'm tackling at the moment. LINKING TOGETHER LAMBDA AND SNS ACROSS AWS ACCOUNTS Linking together Lambda and SNS across AWS accounts. Hooking together Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda functions and Simple Notification Service (SNS) topics is relatively trivial when working within the same account. However, when dealing with multiple accounts, you encounter a mire of access controls which need to be gently configured in order for things to run smoothly. YOUR ENGINEERS MUST SPEAK TO USERS TOO Your Engineers Must Speak to Users Too. The team, and your users, will thank you. Photo by Farrel Nobel. If you’re building something to solve a problem, chances are someone is

MY JOEL TEST

My Joel Test. A few years ago my friend, Richard, introduced me to the Joel Test.Written in 2000, the Joel Test measures the “quality” of a development team in twelve questions. YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY ARE NOT “EARLY ADOPTERS” Your friends and family are not “early adopters” Find your real early adopters and solve their problems instead. Photo by Caleb Woods. I really hate it when a startup goes with “friends and family” releases rather than finding real customers.

CITIZENFOUR

Citizenfour. A humble review. Edward Snowden - the NSA whistleblower, and the subject of Citizenfour. In June 2013, over fifty-thousand classified documents pertaining to a collection of secret programmes of mass surveillance formulated in the wake of 9-11 by the NSA and GCHQ were leaked to The Guardian. DRIVING YOUR TEAM FORWARD WITH HYPOTHESIS-DRIVEN Driving your team forward with Hypothesis-Driven Development. It was a Monday afternoon, and our team retrospective. Every two weeks we’d sit down and discuss what happened since the previous one, but this time it was different.

JIMMY THOMPSON

Hi, I'm Jimmy, a software engineer based in London. Welcome to my blog. Hi, I'm Jimmy. I'm a Developer currently working for ThoughtWorks in London. I usually blog about things that are racking my brains, or problems I'm tackling at the moment. LINKING TOGETHER LAMBDA AND SNS ACROSS AWS ACCOUNTS Linking together Lambda and SNS across AWS accounts. Hooking together Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda functions and Simple Notification Service (SNS) topics is relatively trivial when working within the same account. However, when dealing with multiple accounts, you encounter a mire of access controls which need to be gently configured in order for things to run smoothly. YOUR ENGINEERS MUST SPEAK TO USERS TOO Your Engineers Must Speak to Users Too. The team, and your users, will thank you. Photo by Farrel Nobel. If you’re building something to solve a problem, chances are someone is

MY JOEL TEST

My Joel Test. A few years ago my friend, Richard, introduced me to the Joel Test.Written in 2000, the Joel Test measures the “quality” of a development team in twelve questions. YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY ARE NOT “EARLY ADOPTERS” Your friends and family are not “early adopters” Find your real early adopters and solve their problems instead. Photo by Caleb Woods. I really hate it when a startup goes with “friends and family” releases rather than finding real customers.

CITIZENFOUR

Citizenfour. A humble review. Edward Snowden - the NSA whistleblower, and the subject of Citizenfour. In June 2013, over fifty-thousand classified documents pertaining to a collection of secret programmes of mass surveillance formulated in the wake of 9-11 by the NSA and GCHQ were leaked to The Guardian. DRIVING YOUR TEAM FORWARD WITH HYPOTHESIS-DRIVEN Driving your team forward with Hypothesis-Driven Development. It was a Monday afternoon, and our team retrospective. Every two weeks we’d sit down and discuss what happened since the previous one, but this time it was different.

JIMMY THOMPSON

Hi, I'm Jimmy, a software engineer based in London. Welcome to my blog. Hi, I'm Jimmy. I'm a Developer currently working for ThoughtWorks in London. I usually blog about things that are racking my brains, or problems I'm tackling at the moment. LINKING TOGETHER LAMBDA AND SNS ACROSS AWS ACCOUNTS Linking together Lambda and SNS across AWS accounts. Hooking together Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda functions and Simple Notification Service (SNS) topics is relatively trivial when working within the same account. However, when dealing with multiple accounts, you encounter a mire of access controls which need to be gently configured in order for things to run smoothly. YOUR ENGINEERS MUST SPEAK TO USERS TOO Your Engineers Must Speak to Users Too. The team, and your users, will thank you. Photo by Farrel Nobel. If you’re building something to solve a problem, chances are someone is YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY ARE NOT “EARLY ADOPTERS” Your friends and family are not “early adopters” Find your real early adopters and solve their problems instead. Photo by Caleb Woods. I really hate it when a startup goes with “friends and family” releases rather than finding real customers. DRIVING YOUR TEAM FORWARD WITH HYPOTHESIS-DRIVEN Driving your team forward with Hypothesis-Driven Development. It was a Monday afternoon, and our team retrospective. Every two weeks we’d sit down and discuss what happened since the previous one, but this time it was different.

JIMMY THOMPSON

Hi, I'm Jimmy, a software engineer based in London. Welcome to my blog. Hi, I'm Jimmy. I'm a Developer currently working for ThoughtWorks in London. I usually blog about things that are racking my brains, or problems I'm tackling at the moment. LINKING TOGETHER LAMBDA AND SNS ACROSS AWS ACCOUNTS Linking together Lambda and SNS across AWS accounts. Hooking together Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda functions and Simple Notification Service (SNS) topics is relatively trivial when working within the same account. However, when dealing with multiple accounts, you encounter a mire of access controls which need to be gently configured in order for things to run smoothly. YOUR ENGINEERS MUST SPEAK TO USERS TOO Your Engineers Must Speak to Users Too. The team, and your users, will thank you. Photo by Farrel Nobel. If you’re building something to solve a problem, chances are someone is

MY JOEL TEST

My Joel Test. A few years ago my friend, Richard, introduced me to the Joel Test.Written in 2000, the Joel Test measures the “quality” of a development team in twelve questions. YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY ARE NOT “EARLY ADOPTERS” Your friends and family are not “early adopters” Find your real early adopters and solve their problems instead. Photo by Caleb Woods. I really hate it when a startup goes with “friends and family” releases rather than finding real customers.

CITIZENFOUR

Citizenfour. A humble review. Edward Snowden - the NSA whistleblower, and the subject of Citizenfour. In June 2013, over fifty-thousand classified documents pertaining to a collection of secret programmes of mass surveillance formulated in the wake of 9-11 by the NSA and GCHQ were leaked to The Guardian. DRIVING YOUR TEAM FORWARD WITH HYPOTHESIS-DRIVEN Driving your team forward with Hypothesis-Driven Development. It was a Monday afternoon, and our team retrospective. Every two weeks we’d sit down and discuss what happened since the previous one, but this time it was different.

JIMMY THOMPSON

Hi, I'm Jimmy, a software engineer based in London. Welcome to my blog. Hi, I'm Jimmy. I'm a Developer currently working for ThoughtWorks in London. I usually blog about things that are racking my brains, or problems I'm tackling at the moment. LINKING TOGETHER LAMBDA AND SNS ACROSS AWS ACCOUNTS Linking together Lambda and SNS across AWS accounts. Hooking together Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda functions and Simple Notification Service (SNS) topics is relatively trivial when working within the same account. However, when dealing with multiple accounts, you encounter a mire of access controls which need to be gently configured in order for things to run smoothly. YOUR ENGINEERS MUST SPEAK TO USERS TOO Your Engineers Must Speak to Users Too. The team, and your users, will thank you. Photo by Farrel Nobel. If you’re building something to solve a problem, chances are someone is

MY JOEL TEST

My Joel Test. A few years ago my friend, Richard, introduced me to the Joel Test.Written in 2000, the Joel Test measures the “quality” of a development team in twelve questions. YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY ARE NOT “EARLY ADOPTERS” Your friends and family are not “early adopters” Find your real early adopters and solve their problems instead. Photo by Caleb Woods. I really hate it when a startup goes with “friends and family” releases rather than finding real customers.

CITIZENFOUR

Citizenfour. A humble review. Edward Snowden - the NSA whistleblower, and the subject of Citizenfour. In June 2013, over fifty-thousand classified documents pertaining to a collection of secret programmes of mass surveillance formulated in the wake of 9-11 by the NSA and GCHQ were leaked to The Guardian. DRIVING YOUR TEAM FORWARD WITH HYPOTHESIS-DRIVEN Driving your team forward with Hypothesis-Driven Development. It was a Monday afternoon, and our team retrospective. Every two weeks we’d sit down and discuss what happened since the previous one, but this time it was different.

JIMMY THOMPSON

Hi, I'm Jimmy, a software engineer based in London. Welcome to my blog. Hi, I'm Jimmy. I'm a Developer currently working for ThoughtWorks in London. I usually blog about things that are racking my brains, or problems I'm tackling at the moment. LINKING TOGETHER LAMBDA AND SNS ACROSS AWS ACCOUNTS Linking together Lambda and SNS across AWS accounts. Hooking together Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda functions and Simple Notification Service (SNS) topics is relatively trivial when working within the same account. However, when dealing with multiple accounts, you encounter a mire of access controls which need to be gently configured in order for things to run smoothly. YOUR ENGINEERS MUST SPEAK TO USERS TOO Your Engineers Must Speak to Users Too. The team, and your users, will thank you. Photo by Farrel Nobel. If you’re building something to solve a problem, chances are someone is YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY ARE NOT “EARLY ADOPTERS” Your friends and family are not “early adopters” Find your real early adopters and solve their problems instead. Photo by Caleb Woods. I really hate it when a startup goes with “friends and family” releases rather than finding real customers. DRIVING YOUR TEAM FORWARD WITH HYPOTHESIS-DRIVEN Driving your team forward with Hypothesis-Driven Development. It was a Monday afternoon, and our team retrospective. Every two weeks we’d sit down and discuss what happened since the previous one, but this time it was different.

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Hi, I'm Jimmy. I'm a Developer currently working for ThoughtWorks in London. I usually blog about things that are racking my brains, or problems I'm tackling at the moment. I hope you find these helpful, or at least interesting!

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MY JOEL TEST

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LINKING TOGETHER LAMBDA AND SNS ACROSS AWS ACCOUNTS

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